In a small Eastern European town, a young piano teacher finds herself caught up in a web of complex relationships, including a forbidden romance with an older man. As she navigates the intricacies of love, betrayal, and self-discovery, she must confront the secrets and desires that lie beneath the surface. With stunning piano performances and emotional depth, Crisis explores the power of music to transcend boundaries and the complexities of human connection.
Major Grasser lives on his estate with his twin daughters Britta and Stina. Stina is studying at the university and Britta wants to work with farming. The major wants to put Britta in a school of commerce and hires a tutor to prepare her for higher education. This she dislikes and things doesn't gets better when her father thinking of selling the estate.
Ingegerd Lindberg is coming to Stockholm from the countryside. The first person she meets at the Central Station is Curt Brehmer.
Manager Hellman has an extramarital child he pays for maintenance. Soon he discovers that there are more people than he who pays for the unknown son.
Max Kvarne is an international adventurer who stole 25,000 pounds in 100-pound banknotes at a London coup.
Stockholm Central station. The loudspeaker announces that the train 7.03 is delayed and arrives at 7.30. The troubled brothers Oskar and Fredrik Reyner await attorney Thomas Linder.
The boxing promoter Charlie returns from America to Sweden and needs to find a professional Swedish boxer for an upcoming fight. By chance Charlie watches Björn Harring fight off some hoodlums. Charlie sees great potential in Björn and wants to promote him for an upcoming fight, the problem is though that Björn is studying theology and is soon to become a priest. This might not look too good in a prejudiced society of the 40s with a boxing priest, but Charlie is determent to find a way.
Celestin is the singing teacher in a monastery and Denis is one of her students. They both dream about the life outside. (It's a Swedish version of the famous vaudeville-opérette "Mam'zelle Nitouche").
The ladies man Georg is finally about to get married, but a misunderstanding lead to his new wife break up the wedding.
Manager Blom and his family stop at a mountain hotel. Once there, all family members are insolent and even cruel to both guests and staff. When the hotel manager tries to get rid of the family Manager Blom buys the hotel. But all of the staff resigns while a telegram to the family Blom tells them they are ruined! To raise money the family begins to work on and operate the hotel.
The Whalers (original title: Valfangare) is a filmed record of the final whaling expedition in the Arctic before the outbreak of WW2. Only partly a documentary, the film is able to accommodate a dramatic throughline, concerning the redemption of wastrelly millionaire's son Allan Blom (Allan Bohlin). Pressed into service on the expedition, Allan shows he's a true son of Scandanavia through his courageous actions on the high seas, and even wins the hand of heroine Sonja (Tutta Rolf) in the bargain. While the whaling scenes are both exciting and exhillarating, the sequence in which a whale carcass is stripped and gutted may not appeal to everyone in the audience. Originally filmed in 1939 in Swedish and Norwegian, The Whalers was helpfully fitted out with English subtitles for its 1942 American run.
It's time for conscription training outside the small town Lillköping. The bank clerk becomes an officer - the bank manager ordinary conscript. Everybody seems to be trying to get a date with Elsa, who cooks their food. Nobody takes the training seriously.
Baron Conrad Crusenhielm is hit in the head during a drunken brawl. Suffering from amnesia, he is mistaken for the lost sailor Karlsson and taken to the navy vessel Fylgia.
Karin Berggren is living a double life. In the daytime she is a strict teacher at a boarding school for girls. In the evenings she becomes the star singer at a popular nightclub.
A bomb attempt is prevented in the last minute but one question remains: who placed the bomb? After some stakeout work the police are on the track and a wild hunt through Stockholm begins.
Wholesaler Pettersson ends up in the military after being mixed up with a soldier on the run, who has stolen his identity.
Pelle Frisk is serving in the Swedish armed forces.
Wholesaler Berggren's daughter Elin travels to Örebro to spend her honeymoon with her husband Efraim. They get separate rooms on the hotel and later that night she finds another woman in her husband's bed. She goes back home immediately. Elin's sister Irma is courted by the handsome Klas, but he seems to be unable to forget his last fiancée. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
The bank employee Bertil falls in love with Margot. He does not know she is the bank director's daughter.
Patrik Bergman returns to Stockholm after a couple of years. He had to leave the capital when he was the suspect of a bank robbery.